This practice of marriage was called marrying abroad. ... Because mothers lived with and nurtured their children in a hut separate from their husbands, the mother-child relationship usually had more depth and emotional content than either the father-child or the husband-wife relationship. ... Obviously as stated above by White, the mother/child relationship follows the form of a matriarchal family. ... For instance in today's society a lot of teenage girls in a patriarchal family are stereotyped or called, "daddy's girl," where the father looks after and makes sure the daughter do...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"An African-American female slave would be effectively head of household even where there was a known and partially responsible father any master or mistress-supplied child welfare assistance went through the mother, and therefore strengthened the role, power, and economic position of the mother (internet)" The bonds developed by many slaves on the voyage across the Middle Passage continued and developed becoming a primary source of social organization that continued for decades. ... Living in such close proximity to whites began to influence some of the cultural habits of the slaves this co...

• Word Count: 2095
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another group called the Transcendentalists, having no economic ties, further condemned the institutions with concentrations on individual perfection and excessive connotations of guilt. ... People will believe that an abused child can suffer from extended mistreatment, but are unable to acknowledge the impact of the institution of slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1128
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Slavery consisted of individuals that worked for so called slave masters who treated them not as human beings but as their personal property. ... In this particular situation, he was able to see the difference between the so-called "religious slave-holders" and "non-religious slave-holders." ... Instead, he feels empowered to gain his freedom and the respect that he deserves as a child of God and "true believer in Christianity" which Douglass clearly gives the definition of in the Appendix following his narrative. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass called it this way to stress his authorship of the work. ... In fact, we can say that Douglass's preface could stand for what Lejeune called the autobiographical pact which committed the author to tell his life story in a spirit of sincerity. ... Instead, he presented himself as a virtually motherless child from an anonymous white father and whose very name was given to him by a white master. ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The theme of colonialism is present before anyone of the so called 'dark races' appears: right from Jane's childhood at Gateshead. In the opening scene she sits in her window seat 'cross-legged, like a Turk' and, whilst clashing with John Reed, calls him 'a slave-driver' and describes herself as 'like any other rebel slave', syntax which Susan Meyer suggests 'disguises the trope as a simile' but does, in fact, 'designate Jane a slave and then describes her as behaving like others in the same position'. ... Moving on, she is...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Set in the palaces and boardrooms of Europe and in the villages of central Africa, it tells the story of the tragedy that took place during Leopold's so called rule, a tragedy that is so familiar to African-Americans, being told of our African brothers residing in the homeland. ... The soldiers were slaves who had been press-ganged through hostage taking, or stolen as children and brought up in child colonies founded by Leopold and the Catholic Church. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If one's master called him or her at the same time that a parent called, children were expected to come to the parent rather than the master . Of course, problems resulted; and the child would be punished by whomever he or she disobeyed. ...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate